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Anna+Mark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:43:34 +0000

Bare Bulb

Anna+Mark — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:27:35 +0000

Missing Summer

Anna+Mark — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:29:33 +0000

Going through all the external hard drives, amalgamating, deleting, sorting and organizing is a task for winter. Getting ready for the Wedding season can be a daunting task. Don’t you find that getting ready for any task or job usually takes so much longer that the task itself? Strange but true. No wonder the saying goes, preparation is half the battle. I think its more like 75 or 80%. Really, the same applies to shooting. As most photogs can attest to it, we shoot 20% and do everything else 80%. After all its a business and working for yourself means that you wear all the hats. Not complaining just saying We love what we do, and although there are the odd tasks that we all dread…. we would never have it other way. But I digress, I’ve been cleaning up and organizing our images… I think we have over 100 000 images and soo many haven’t seen the day of light. So occasionally we will post a fun shot, fine art, personal or just something weird So here is one from the summer. As we had a snow storm yesterday its nice to reminisce of the balmy weather and good times we can have in summer. Cheers and keep warm. Mark

Pics of the Day :: Red Canoe & Fog

Anna+Mark — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:38:18 +0000

Our Fine Art Online Gallery has been **UPDATED** have a look

Gallery Series :: Sunset on Rice Lake

Anna+Mark — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:39:42 +0000

Welcome back everyone. Hope you had a wonderful long weekend. Wasn’t the weather just spectacular? Epitome of summer as we know it for this year
Please enjoy a gallery series image from Rice Lake called Sunset. It will be a limited run of reprints that you will be able to find in our Online Gallery. Currently working on a site to bring you a full and diverse range of our Fine Art Prints. They make awesome gifts and look wonderful enlarged or made into a canvas in your home or office. Enjoy!

Image, Emotion and the unknown…

Anna+Mark — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:17:30 +0000

I’ve been doing lot of post production from recently shot Weddings and sometimes one can get lost in the mundane work of culling, colour balancing, retouching and prepping images without much thought of what I was thinking artistically at the time when I composed the image and what emotion I wanted to evoke in the viewers eye. As an artist, I think that is one of the most important aspects of capturing the essence of your subject. Hence our slogan: The essence of elegance, the essence of you. And since we shoot primarily people in love, it is with utmost importance to capture the raw emotion of that millisecond and freeze in a single frame. Having the right light, lines, angle, apperture, shutter….et al., play a very important role in being able to make art. Art that people get. A feeling of emotion that one can relate to. So as I was polishing some images I came across this one below. I looked at for quite a long time and tried to figure out what exactly captivates my attention. I gave it a bit of a nostalgic feel, a little mistique of not being able to see the lady, just a pretty smile, a well dressed gentleman being very close to her. The lines of her spagetti string leading your eye away from the smile and back up the mans jacket make it a really well composed image at least in my eyes. So, next time you are photographing a Bride, a toddler, a family pet, think what it is you are trying to convey through your image and focus on the importance of your story telling. Sometime less is more, details unveil the underlying notion and hiding a part of the picture can lead to great imagination. Tell me what do you think?

Sweet Pea by Sharlena

Anna+Mark — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:28:24 +0000

So if you follow our blog, you’d know that we celebrated St. Patrick’s day few months back. Our first images was of clover leafs. Not only for good luck, but also we boast our brand in “KP” Green and love everything green from colour, through Weddings to energy. When I shot an uber talented artist Sharlena, she had this amazing textured canvas in green that she was holding on for some time. When I expressed my love for the colour, she banked it. And to my pleasant surprise, Sharlena surprised me with this amazing rendition of my image. I was amazed and fell in love with it. I had to have it framed Stat! So, if you are an art lover, would love to learn art or would love to surprise someone with such personal gift as art piece from Sharlena, don’t hesitate to check her out. Here is my rendition above and hers below. We love it.

Brush Strokes

Anna+Mark — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:50:14 +0000

Recently I had the pleasure to photograph an artist at work. Sharlene Wood of SharedPalette.ca is an amazingly talented artist in mixed media. While I shot her in action, Sharlene was able to finish two full pieces and lovingly add touches to a beuatiful canvas of trees. Her company offers this really cool service where she paints at venues and events and engages the guests to co-paint an art piece that usually gets finished the same night. Do check out her work and her site. Without a further ado:

Fine Art Series

Anna+Mark — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:45:12 +0000

Over the course of the year, we will be adding Fine Art Images to our blog and a gallery site (currently under construction) that will be for sale. There will be a limited number of prints. So here are our inagural pieces, titled Tatry, The Birch, Droplets and One respectively. Enjoy.

Adamson Estate High Contrast Study

Anna+Mark — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:23:34 +0000